Squire Boone's significance to this genealogy, however, is due to his influence upon
his nephew John Boone in settling in North Carolina. On April 11, 1750, Squire and Sarah
Morgan Boone sold their land in Berks County and left with their family, including their
sixteen-year-old son Daniel, who was destined to become the most celebrated frontiersman
in America. The Boones stopped for a year or more in Linville Creek, six miles north of
Harrisonburg, Virginia. It was not until the late autumn of 1751, or some time in 1752,
that Squire Boone and his party reached the Yadkin Valley in North Carolina. For his first
home site Squire chose a hill overlooking the Yadkin River in the area which soon became a
part of Rowan County but which is now in Davidson County. At the first County Court held
in Salisbury in June, 1753, Squire Boone was listed as one of the fourteen justices. His
residence was given as Boone's Ford. Later in that year, on December 29, Squire acquired
land on the western side of the Yadkin River in what is now Davie County, but Rowan County
at that time. The grant was for 640 acres on Bear Creek from the Earl of Granville.

As indicated earlier, the primary significance of Squire Boone's migration to North
Carolina, so far as these narratives are concerned, lies in the fact that he was
accompanied or joined soon afterwards by his nephew John Boone, son of Benjamin and Ann
Farmer Boone.

Children of Squire and Sarah Morgan Boone are:

Sarah (1724-1815), married in Pennsylvania to John Wilsockson was not a Quaker. They
lived on a land grant near the present Cooleemee, Davie County, NC. The family moved to
Kentucky probably in 1779.

Israel (1726-1756) was buried near the present Mocksville, NC. He and his wife had four
children, the two daughters died young. The two sons went to Kentucky probably in 1779.

Samuel (1728-1816?), lived on present Rowan County side of the South Yadkin River. All
went to Kentucky, probably in 1779.

Jonathan (1730-1808?), married Mary Carter. This family also went to Kentucky around
1779.

Elizabeth (1732-1825), married William Grant about 1750. The family moved to Kentucky.

Daniel (1734-1820), married Rebecca Bryan. The family settled in Kentucky in October
1779. Additional links for Daniel Boone's family provided at the end of this narrative.

Mary (1736-1819), married William Bryan and moved to Kentucky.

George (1739-1820), married Ann Linville and moved to Kentucky.

Edward (1740-1780), married Martha Bryan and moved to Wilkes County. More info available
at boonesociety.org Click on Articles and then The
Life & Death of Edward Boone Brother of Daniel.

Squire, Jr. (1744-1815), married Jane Van Cleave and moved with his family to Kentucky.
More info available at boonesociety.org Click on Articles and then Squire
Boone Brother of Daniel.

Hannah (1746-1828), married John Stewart. Much additional information is available on
Hanah at boonesociety.org Click on articles and then Hannah
Boone & Richard Pennington Memorial Marker. Richard was her second husband.

Squire Boone was a son of
George Boone III and Mary Mogridge (Maugridge) who emigrated from
Bradninch, Devonshire, England, to Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, arriving on 29
September 1717 (O.S.).
Sarah Morgan was a daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Morgan of Towamencin Township in
Philadelphia (now Montgomery) County, Pennsylvania. The parents of Edward Morgan have not
been proved but he has been identified as the son of Sir James Morgan, 4th Baronet of
Llantarnam in Monmouthshire (now Gwent), Wales, and his first wife Ann Hopton of Canon
Frome. The maiden name of Edward's wife Elizabeth has not been determined.When the first
six children of George Boone and Mary Mogridge were born, the Boons were members of the
Church of England and their baptisms were recorded in the register of Bradninch Parish.
The Anglican church in Bradninch is St. Disen's which was built in the middle of the 15th
Century. Squire was baptized on 25 December 1696 (O.S.): 1690 George the
son of George Boone bap the 20 day of July 1692 Sarah ye daughter of George boone bapt 28
day of March 1694 Mary ye daughter of George boone bap the 26th day of Sept 1696 Squire ye
son of George Boone bap Dec 25th 1699 Mary ye daughter of George Boone bap Oct ye 15th
1701/2 John son of George Boone bap Jan ye 30thThe first daughter named Mary died and was
buried on 20 May 1696. Since subsequent children of George and Mary Mogridge Boone
apparently were not baptized in Bradninch, they must have been converted to Quakerism
before their son Joseph was born on 05 April 1704 (O.S.).

Squire Boone and his older brother and sister, George Boone IV and Sarah Boone, preceded
their parents and younger siblings to Pennsylvania, arrivin before 27 July 1713 (O.S.)
when George IV married Deborah Howell, daughter of William and Mary Howell, at Abingdon
Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
Although it does not appear that Squire and Sarah Boone joined Abingdon Meeting, as did
their brother after his marriage, they probably resided in Abingdon with or near him until
their parents arrived there. After a few months at Abingdon, the Boone family, except
George IV, moved to North Wales Township in Philadelphia County where they attended the
Gwynedd Monthly Meeting of the Friends which George Boone III joined in 1717: [Note 5]
10-31, 1717. George Boone, Sr. Produced a Certificate of his Good Life and Conversation
from the Monthly Meeting att Callumpton In Great Britain wch was read and well
recd.Cullompton is a town in Devonshire, northeast of Bradninch about a mile up the River
Culm. Bradninch is about eight miles from the city of Exeter.

By 1720 the Boones had moved again, settling on a arm in Oley Township in Philadelphia
County, which was included in Exeter Township when it was set-off from Oley in 1741. The
family attended Gwynedd Meeting until 25 August 1737 (O.S.) when a new church was
organized as Oley Monthly Meeting which was re-named Exeter Monthly Meeting on 27 May 1742
(O.S.). The Boone land was located the part of Philadelphia County that became
Lancaster County when that county was created and Berks County in 1752. Being from near
Exeter, England, perhaps the Boones influenced the selection of the name Exeter for the
new township in which their land was located.Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan apparently met
at Gwynedd Meeting where, following Quaker custom, they announced to the group that they
intended to get married: [Note 8] 5-26, 1720. Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan declare
intentions: Caddr Evans and Robert Jones Catherine William and Ganior Jones to inquire.
6-30, 1720. Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan, 2nd time Caddr Evans and Robert Jones to see
the marriage orderly ccomplished. 7-27, 1720. Marriage of Squire Boone reported decently
accomplished.

Squire and Sarah Marriage

The following record of marriage is found in records of the
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.

Whereas Squire Boone Son of George Boone of ye County
of Philad & Province of Pensilvania Yeoman and Sarah Morgan Daughter of Edw Morgan of
the Said County and Province Haveing Declared Their Intention of Marriage of Each Other
before two Monthly Meetings of ye People Called Quakers Held at Gwynedd in ye Said County
According to ye Good Order Used Among Them Whose Proceedings Therein After a Diliberate
Consideration Therein and haveing Consent of Parents and Relation Concerned Their Said
Proceedings Are Allowed of By Ye Said Meeting Now These Are to Certify All Whom it may
Concern that for ye Full Accomplishing of Their Said Intentions This Twenty Third Day of
ye Seventh Month In ye Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Twenty They ye Sd.
Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan Appeared At A Solemn Assembly of ye Said People for ye
Purpose Appointed at Their Publick meeting Place In Gwynedd Afforesd And ye Said Squire
Boone Took ye Said Sarah Morgan by ye Hand Did In A Solemn Manner Openly Declare he Took
her To Be his Wife Promising To be Unto Her A Faithfull and Loveing Husband Untill Death
Should Seperate Them And Then & There In the Said Assembly the said Sarah Morgan Did
Likewise Declare She Took ye Said Squire Boone To be her Husband In Like Manner Promiseing
to be Unto him a Faithfull and Loveing Wife Untill Should Seperate Them And Moreover The
Said Squire Boone & Sarah She According to ye Custom of Marriage Assuming ye Name of
Her Husband as Farther Confirmation Thereof Did Then and There to these presents Set There
Hands And We Whose Names Are Under Written Being Among Others Present at ye Solemnization
of the Said Marriage And Subscription in Manner Afforesd
As Witnesses Thereunto have also to These Presents Set Our Hands ye Day & Year Above
Written

A short distance from his father's homestead, Squire Boone,
built a log cabin around a large stone fireplace. Later he built a large stone house
around the same fireplace. Squire and Sarah had a total of 11 children that we know about.
It was here on this homestead in Berks County, Pennsylvania, that Daniel Boone was born to
Squire and Sarah (Morgan) Boone on 22 October 1734, and where he lived until he was about
16 years old.

The births of their first 9 children are recorded in Exeter
Monthly Meeting records as;

[Compilations of Quaker records have since included births of
the other two children, Squire Jr. and Hannah.]

Quaker records are based on the Old Style calendar. Daniel
Boone never adapted to the change to the "new calendar" because his mother never
approved of it, and always insisted he was born on 22 October 1734 even though by the more
modern calendar, his birthdate is recorded as 2 November 1734.

It was probably a combination of events that convinced Squire
Boone that it was time to move. Things were not going well with the church. He had been
'scolded' several times for events in the lives of his children. He had seen how the
church had treated his parents in the same way for basically the same reasons. It didn't
take long before he was thinking that they were getting to be just a little too nosy and
controlling. He didn't like the way they were always telling him how to raise his
children. Also the Indians were causing a lot of people in the Berks County area to move
further southward to escape trouble or rumors of trouble. In any event, in 1750 Squire
moved his family to the Yadkin River valley of North Carolina. He received a land grant
there dated 1753 [See Map].
There is no record that they ever united with The Society of Friends in North Carolina and
many of their children became Baptists.

About 1748 Morgan Bryan and his wife, Martha (Strode) Bryan
had moved with their family to the Yadkin River valley from Virginia. The Boones became
their neighbors. One of Morgan Boone's sons was Joseph Bryan. Joseph had a daughter named
Rebecca Bryan. On 14 August 1756, Daniel Boone and Rebecca Bryan were married in a triple
wedding ceremony (three couples were married at the same time.) The ceremony was performed
by the father of the groom, Squire Boone, who was a Justice of the Peace at that time.

Squire and Sarah (Morgan) Boone continued to live in the
Yadkin River area until their deaths. They are buried at the old Joppa Cemetery at
Mocksville in Davie County, North Carolina. Their gravestones are still standing, having
been encased in brick to prevent souvenir collectors from damaging them. The inscription
on Squire's headstone reads;

"Squire Boone departed this life they
sixty-ninth year
of his age in they year of our Lord 1765, Geneary Tha 2"

Sarah's headstone reads; (It has some damage)

"Sa ... Boone desowned this life 1777,
aged 77 years."

For a number of years Daniel and Rebecca lived in the area of
Bryan's Settlement in or around the Yadkin River valley of Rowan County, North Carolina.
In September, 1773, with six families and forty men, Daniel Boone left North Carolina
headed to Kentucky. They did not succeed. After Indians attacked and killed Daniel's and
Rebecca's oldest son, James and his friend, the settlers turned back. Daniel took his
family to Fort Blackmore on the Clinch River in Virginia where they lived for about two
years while Daniel and some others cut the Wilderness Road and started building Fort
Boonesborough on the Kentucky River. At that point Daniel returned to Virginia and brought
Rebecca and the children to Kentucky. What lay ahead for them would take all the courage
and fortitude that they could muster, but muster it they did. These Boones seem to have
been set on a journey of hardship and pain from the time they were born, but through it
all, they remained a family and that never changed. They were by all accounts, a kind,
caring and decent people of whom all their many descendants living today can be very
proud.

St. Disen's Church in Brandninch, England, where Squire Boone was baptized.
Read below for more information about this plaque - located inside St. Disen.

This is a page from the Bradninch guidebook.

Letter From Daniel to his Sister:

October the 17th, 1816

"Dear Sister
With Pleasuer I red a later from your sun Samuel Boone who informs me that you are yet
Living and in good health considering your age I wright to you to Latt you know I have not
forgot you and to inform you of my own situation Sence the Death of y our Sister Rabacah I
Live with flanders Calaway But am at present at my sun Nathans and in tolerable halth you
can gass at my feilings by your own as we are So Near one age I Need Not write you of our
Satuation as Samuel Bradley or James Grimes ' Can inform you of Every Surcomstance
Relating to our family and how we live in this World and what Chance we shall have in the
next we know Not for my part I am as ignerant as a Child all the Relegan I have to Love
and fear God beleve in Jeses C hrist Dow all the good to my Nighbours and my Self that I
can and Do as Little Harm as I can help and trust on God's marcy for the Rest and I Beleve
god never made a man of my prinsepal to be Lost and I flatter myself Dear Sister that you
are wel l on your way in Cristianaty gave my Love to all your Children and all my frends
fearwell my Dear Sister

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone's Obituary:

DANIEL BOONE

Frontiersman

Daniel Boone, 1734-1820, son of Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan. Born in
Exeter Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. About ten miles east of Reading. The house is
still standing - a large two story stone house.

Squire Boone was a very devout Quaker, but when the Quakers expelled his sister, Sarah for
keeping company with Jacob Stover (a German, non-Quaker), he got sore, quit the Quakers
and, according to Irvin S. Cobb, became a Roman Catholic.

In 1750, the Boones got sore at the Quakers and moved to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
and in 1751 to the Yadikin Country in North Carolina. In 1795 the Spanish Government gave
him a land grant of 8,500 acres in the Femme Osage section on the north side of the
Missouri River, several miles west of the present city of St. Charles, Missouri. He was
appointed Magistrate of his District, held court under a great Elm Tree known as the
Justice Tree.

Daniel Boone's daughters and their mates and children and his sons all settled near him -
they all totaled about 400 - but he only lived to know about 100 of them. He volunteered
in the War of 1812, and was disgusted to be turned down because he was 78 years old. He
died in November 1820, was buried on the north side of the Missouri River about ten miles
north of the present city of Washington, Missouri.

In 1845, the state of Kentucky removed his body and that of his wife, Rebecca, to
Frankfort, Kentucky.